Since AMD started offering its APUs with powerful integrated graphics, Intel has gradually lost its lead in the iGPU space. The Vega iGPU family had already cemented AMD’s grip on the market at the time, and with RDNA, the red team entered a whole new world of devices that provided mini PCs and handhelds with premium graphics performance. Meanwhile, the graphics performance of Intel’s Iris Xe solutions left much to be desired, but all that is set to change with the introduction of Arc iGPUs in the Core Ultra range.
The Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” CPUs are equipped with three configurations of Arc Alchemist iGPUs, which run under the code name “Xe-LPG”. These configurations include 8 Xe-Cores, 7 Xe-Cores and 4 Xe-Cores. The GPUs can overclock up to 2350 MHz (Core Ultra 9 185H) and show a dramatic increase in performance when using faster memory such as LPDDR5X. These GPUs also support DX12 Ultimate, XeSS (DP4a) and AV1, among others.
Overall, these iGPUs are an important component of Chipzilla’s latest processors. Synthetic benchmarks of the Intel Arc iGPU have been seen on various occasions, so today’s news is specifically about gaming benchmarks. The tests were conducted by Golden Pig Upgrade (Bilibili) and include various games tested at 1080p resolution and both high and low settings.
In both cases, the Intel Arc and AMD RDNA 3 iGPUs appear to be very competitive against each other, with the top configurations each winning an equal number of 4 games at low 1080p resolution.
In the 1080p High tests, the Arc iGPU of the Core Ultra 7 155H leads in 7 out of 8 games tested. Even the Core Ultra 5 125H maintains a lead over the RDNA 3 graphics solution. The report also shows that the Meteor Lake CPUs are now much faster than NVIDIA’s MX solutions and come close to the GTX 1650 Max-Q discrete GPUs.
The iGP of the Core Ultra 9 185H thus obviously offers better performance than the Core Ultra 7 155H due to the 100 MHz difference in clock speed. The results are based on the use of LPDDR5X-7467 memory, explaining that the RDNA 3 GPUs do not scale as well as the Meteor Lake Arc iGPUs with faster memory.
While the faster memory is always to be appreciated, it should be noted that such laptops naturally come with a higher cost. Based on the previous pricing for the Meteor Lake laptops, they are positioned in a very high-priced segment. Therefore, AMD has an advantage in terms of pricing for its Ryzen 7040/8040 family of laptops that should not be underestimated. Finally, there is the power efficiency performance data, which shows that the Core Ultra 100H CPUs offer higher performance than the AMD Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” CPUs in the graphics area at 28W TDPs, but AMD is ahead at lower TDPs below 25W.
Intel also has the more power-efficient Core Ultra 100U chips, which are rated for TDPs of 9-15W and therefore may be a better solution for entry-level and handheld devices that are expected to hit the market in the coming months.
Several tech platforms have already shared their gaming performance tests for the Intel Core Ultra Arc iGPU, which performs well against AMD’s RDNA 3 iGPUs. Tests from Dave2D, HardwareCanucks & Jarrod’s Tech all show respectable performance gains over previous generation Iris/UHD GPU solutions and competitive positioning against AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs. These numbers also explain why AMD may have opted to keep the same specs/clock speeds in its RDNA 3 GPUs for the Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” refresh. With driver updates, AMD can certainly offer a performance boost in areas where they lag behind or where the Arc iGPU is only just faster. Intel has also released a new driver, but with competition returning to the iGPU space, we could expect further developments on the driver side from both camps.
This will be especially crucial for the upcoming gaming handhelds based on these iGPU solutions, which are based on the Intel Arc and AMD RDNA 3 architectures. It will also be very interesting to see the full capabilities of Intel Arc iGPUs when mini PCs hit the market, as these chips can scale up to 115W (Core Ultra 9 185H) and unrestricted access to higher power can lead to significant performance gains and great overclocking capabilities. These performance numbers are just a taste of what’s to come in the Core Ultra iGPU department, so we should expect more updates in the future as more devices and solutions become available.
Source: Golden Pig Upgrade (Bilibili)
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